Codeine and spd

Finally managed to get hold of my midwife yesterday and she is referring me for physio and told me to go to see my doctor and get a sick note for work and codeine. She says it's 100% safe during pregnancy. Is anyone on here already taking it and everything is going ok?

I'm just worried about taking anything at all during pregnancy, as this is my 4th pregnancy, but my first that has come this far xx

Hi Hun this is my 3 rd pregnancy with SPD and also on codeine, I have been on it from 14 weeks. Last pregnancy I was even in oramorph from around 28 weeks for the pain. I would advise to ask for lactulose as well as it does cause constipation x

Taking codeine at night currently, trying to hold off through the day. Last pregnancy the doctor wouldn't prescibe me anything and it was tough coping with the pain! So thankful I have something this time round!

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Vaughn - September 2014

Elias - January 2018 (Born with an undiagnosed unilateral cleft lip and alveolus.)

Thank you everyone. This makes me feel better about taking it. Obviously I know the midwife knows what she is talking about, but it's just nice to hear it from people who are actually taking it. Think I will probably see if I can just take it at night to start with and try hold off during the day as well, but we will see. Thanks again xx

Thank you everyone. This makes me feel better about taking it. Obviously I know the midwife knows what she is talking about, but it's just nice to hear it from people who are actually taking it. Think I will probably see if I can just take it at night to start with and try hold off during the day as well, but we will see. Thanks again xx

Hi Hun if your SPD does get really bad speak to your midwife to see if they can induce. I have already been confirmed for 37 week induction as we're both my boys. And what I did was wean off my meds over the 2 weeks before to ensure they had the best chance of not being born with it in their system. It was bloody agony those 2 weeks but worth it. Both were in scbu for 24hrs for monitoring but no meds were in their system so was released straight after

I spoke to my midwife about SPD last week and she offered to refer me to physio which I’m not bothering with as I had it last time with my DS (dear son) for SPD and it did nothing at all to help. She also said that I could take paracetamol and if it gets totally unbearable to see my gp for some codeine but to use it sparingly.

I shall definitely be bearing this in mind as I wasn’t told about codeine in my last pregnancy so I suffered with months of sleepless nights, terrible pain, not being able to drive and basically being housebound; which definitely wasn’t fun!! x

Hi Hun if your SPD does get really bad speak to your midwife to see if they c...

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26/09/2017

Hi Hun if your SPD does get really bad speak to your midwife to see if they can induce. I have already been confirmed for 37 week induction as we're both my boys. And what I did was wean off my meds over the 2 weeks before to ensure they had the best chance of not being born with it in their system. It was bloody agony those 2 weeks but worth it. Both were in scbu for 24hrs for monitoring but no meds were in their system so was released straight after

I spoke to my midwife about SPD last week and she offered to refer me to phys...

Posted
26/09/2017

I spoke to my midwife about SPD last week and she offered to refer me to physio which I’m not bothering with as I had it last time with my DS for SPD and it did nothing at all to help. She also said that I could take paracetamol and if it gets totally unbearable to see my gp for some codeine but to use it sparingly.

I shall definitely be bearing this in mind as I wasn’t told about codeine in my last pregnancy so I suffered with months of sleepless nights, terrible pain, not being able to drive and basically being housebound; which definitely wasn’t fun!! x

That's basically where I'm at at the moment. I don't do anything or go anywhere, which I haven't really done since being 6 weeks pregnant as I've had hcg and now this. But it's now effecting me being able to sleep,

Get out of bed and to the toilet and getting to work. I'm in constant agony and still being sick as well. Which is hard with this because I can't get close to the toilet either, so I've become a pro at being sick into the toilet bowl while standing up. Being pregnant really is awful, I'm still waiting for the glow 😂 Xx

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